What is the LQTS?

What are the symptoms?

Diagnostic criteria for the Long QT Syndrome.

Who are at risk for having LQTS and how common is this condition?

The Long QT Syndrome: The Prospective International Study. The Prospective
     Longitudinal Study of Families. The LQTS International Registry.

Age-gender influence on the rate corrected QT interval genotype and phenotype.

The Jervell A, Lange-Nielsen F. Congenital deaf-mutism or surdo-cardiac syndrome.

The Romano-Ward Long QT Syndrome variant.

LQTS3 variant and Brugada disease: 2 aspects of the same disease?

LQTS and Andersen's syndrome.

ECG T-wave patterns in genetically distinct forms of the hereditary Long QT Syndrome.

What is the QT-interval? What is borderline QT?

Pregnancy and LQTS. Can pregnancy be a trigger in Long QT Syndrome?

What are known triggers in Long QT Syndrome?

Torsade de Pointes ventricular tachycardia.

The role of M cells in the generation of U waves, triggered activity and Torsade de
     Pointes.

Sudden cardiac death in young people with apparently normal heart: cardiovascular
     causes.

When should a check for Long QT Syndrome be considered?

Influence of genotype on the clinical course of the syndrome.

Treatment and who should be treated?

Unilateral cervicothoracic sympathetic ganglionectomy for the treatment of Long QT
     inteval síndrome and video-assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomy for congenital Long
     QT Syndromes.

Beta blockers, mexiletine, potasium and other drugs.

Is there a role for implantable cardioverter defibrillators in Long QT Syndrome?

Follow up of medical treatment´s patients.

LQTS and sudden infant death syndrome.

The future: genetics manipulation.

First Worldwide Internet Symposium on Drug-Induced QT Prolongation
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